United Nations
November 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. For “balance,” the ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The ICC says the Israeli leaders are guilty of “crimes against humanity” in connection with the war started by Gaza. The ICC is a bad joke, but sadly, there are countries that take it seriously:
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October 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is said to be footage of Sinwar, just before his death, filmed by an Israeli drone. I am not sure exactly what is going on here; Sinwar appears to be wounded, perhaps missing his right hand. He feebly tries to fend off the drone with a stick. I take it that he was killed immediately or shortly afterward, but I am not sure how: Yahya Sinwar last moments, with
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October 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Andrew McCarthy updates events in Israel’s current multifront war in the NRO/Corner post “Hezbollah Attack Kills Four Israeli Soldiers as U.S. Deploys Troops to Operate Missile Defense System.” Unless you follow events with the help of Elon Musk’s X, you may not know that the United Nations forces pose something like an eighth front as they work in apparent collaboration with Hezbollah south of the Litani River: [I]t has long
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September 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In my head I can hear some keffiyeh-clad folk singer warbling an adaptation of the folk song about union activist Joe Hill: “I dreamed I saw Fateh Sherif last night, alive as you and me…” That would be after the IDF blasted him in an airstrike in one of those eternal refugee camps in Tyre, Lebanon. Sherif was head of the UNRWA teachers’ union in Lebanon with a second gig
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September 25, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In his first speech at the United Nations, Argentine president Javier Milei said: Now, at some point, as is often the case with most bureaucratic structures that we men create, this organization stopped upholding the principles outlined in its founding declaration and began to mutate. An organization that had been essentially intended as a shield to protect the realm of men, was transformed into a multi-tentacled leviathan that purports to decide not only what
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the tweet below, Aviva Klompas provides a good summary of the apparent facts underlying Israel’s astounding Operation Grim Beeper, as Michael Doran calls it. Doran himself comments in the thread “A few thoughts on Operation Grim Beeper.” As I get it, Israel seems to have manufactured and sold the beepers to Hezbollah through a Hungarian front. Perhaps the terrorists were attracted by the volume discount. On October 8 Hezbollah
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June 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden administration spent more than $300 million to construct a pier on the Gaza shore, intended to facilitate provision of supplies to Hamas. Which is itself, of course, a terrible idea. But things have not gone well: NEW Lifespan of Biden’s $320 million pier: May 17: Biden’s pier opens May 21: “No aid from pier has been delivered to broader population” May 28: Pier ops suspended after piece breaks
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June 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
One might detect an ambivalence about Israel’s defense of itself in Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s reticence to comment about Operation Arnon. That would be a mistake. There is no ambivalence Sullivan’s reticence masks Biden’s promotion of Israel’s capitulation to Hamas. NSA Jake Sullivan refused to tell CNN if he feels comfortable with Israel's rescue mission.The answer is, he feels uncomfortable. Every Israeli success reduces the chance we'll surrender
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March 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
We’ve traced the drift of President Biden and his team away from Israel toward the side of Hamas in the current war. You might say they’re selling Israel out, but it’s not clear what they’re getting in return. You might say they don’t know what they’re doing, but one fears that they do. They seek the survival of Hamas as Israel seeks to complete its campaign to eliminate it as
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March 23, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Employees of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, participated in the October 7 attack on Israel, raping, torturing and murdering Jews in tandem with Hamas jihadists and taking Israelis and Americans hostage. Such deadly collaboration should come as no surprise. As Paul Johnson showed in his masterful Modern Times, the United Nations has always been hostile to the West in general and the USA and Israel in particular. “The
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March 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Israel’s war on Hamas has had several side effects. One such is the exposure of UNRWA a functional arm of Hamas. As Michael Rubin puts it: The rot surrounding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East keeps accumulating. Not only did the UNRWA allow Hamas command posts under local hospitals and the UNRWA’s own headquarters, but UNRWA employees hid weaponry in their homes
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February 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
More evidence that the Biden Administration is largely staffed by morons and ignoramuses. A couple days ago I drew a contrast between the late UN Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Biden’s UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who gives Kamala Harris a run for her money in the word-salad platitudes sweepstakes. Thomas-Greenfield outdid herself when, after the Algerian cease-fire resolution was defeated a few days ago, she concluded her statement as follows:
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February 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I’ll have more to say very shortly about the UN Security Council resolution dance that Scott wrote about this morning, as I agree that it looks like Biden is positioning himself to turn on Israel at a moment’s notice. For the moment, I want to note the contrast between Biden’s UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a career foreign service officer who was likely picked for the post for the obvious reason,
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February 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Times of Israel has sent out an alert on this breaking news story by Emanuel Fabian: “Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center.” Subhead: “Subterranean facility for terror group’s intelligence needs, beneath UN complex in upscale Rimal neighborhood, discovered after interrogations of Palestinian prisoners.” Datelined Gaza City, the story opens this way: Beneath the Gaza Strip headquarters of the controversial United Nations agency for
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February 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Drawing on signals intelligence, interrogations of Hamas terrorists, and documents recovered in Gaza, the government of Israel has compiled a dossier of findings that establish UNRWA’s partnership with Hamas promoting terrorism. The Washington Free Beacon has posted it on Scribd along with its accompanying story. I have embedded it at the bottom. Following a briefing of American officials that included the dossier, the Biden administration temporarily suspended funding to UNRWA.
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February 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Rich Goldberg is senior adviser with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He has also worked on Capitol Hill on a wide range of national security issues. His FDD bio is here. When it comes to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East
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January 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Dan Senor devotes the current edition of his Call Me Back Podcast to a timely discussion of UNRWA’s collaboration with Hamas. Senor calls on the Times of Israel’s Haviv Rettig Gur to explain what this requited love affair is all about. I have posted the podcast below. The show notes link to the UN Watch report “UNRWA Hate Starts Here: How UNRWA Teachers Indoctrinate Palestinian Children and Promote Terrorism and
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